The Second Edition Of The Night Spektors

Seth threw his arms triumphantly in the air. “Yes!” He had so many plans for the Night Spektors. Plans that included hot dog day, mandatory trips to the golf greens and ultimate sandwich cook-offs. Seth went and stood on the Night Spektors Soap Box. “Now that I am Chief, we will have many changes. I’m going to change us for the better and not for the worse. These said changes will benefit mostly me, but you will have a few very small rewards as well. Thank you for voting for me and standing by me during our election. How about a round of applause for me and the changes I’m going to bring to us here.” The applause was scattered and half-hearted. “I said applause!” (Ben knew at that moment Seth had become a power hungry monster.) Once again the same amount of applause came from the Night Spektors and everyone began to carry on with their business.

            Ben heard crying. He looked down to see Vaughn sitting on the ground pouting and crying. “What is it Vaughn?” Ben asked unenthusiastically and with annoyance. “I couldn’t be Chief ‘cause I’m nothin’ but a lowly sidekick. I am just so sad.” Ben rolled his eyes and walked over to talk to Seth.

            “Seth.”

            “Yes?”

            “I want to talk to you.”

            “Well you’ll have to wait in line buddy, I’m a popular man now that I’m Chief.”

            Ben should have just stayed with Vaughn. “Listen, what are we going to do? We may have handled the new Chief thing well but we still need to have a plan and find Sundling.”

            “I don’t need to hear all of your meaningless chatter Ben. We don’t need to find Sundling, we have me.”

            “Seth, you are being ridiculous.”

            “Don’t try me Ben!” Seth’s voice then dropped to a whisper, “Ben I am trying to assert my dominance over this organization and you are doing absolutely nothing to help me out. We can talk about this later when other people aren’t around.” Seth’s voice then regained its power, “And I mean it Ben!”

            Ben instantly began looking for something hard and possibly metal or wood that he could bang his head off of. Liz noticed this and decided she would attempt to begin a conversation with him.

            “Ben, did you happen to start your story for Mrs. Rut yet?” Liz asked. Ben was super jealous of her unfaltering good looks and sparkling personality. Not to mention the super power she had that he didn’t. He also couldn’t hold a candle to her academic abilities and how much she cared for the class.

            “No Liz, not yet.”

            “Well Ben I think you’d better get started. I mean, I’ve written so much of mine and you haven’t even started!”

            Ben felt very annoyed with Liz at this moment. He couldn’t understand why he was having such a writer’s block. It wasn’t his fault Liz picked the good storyline and he was stuck with nothing. He knew she was just trying to rub it in his face that she was Ms. Rut’s favorite. “I will get to it Liz. I just need to find a plot and storyline.”

            “Okay!” She walked away.

            Ben just wanted to get out of the Bio Lair. He was getting a little sick of all of the superheroes and Seth’s superego. He began to look around for Vaughn because he knew Vaughn would never find his way out of the Bio Lair by himself. Ben looked to the left, and then he looked to the right. He couldn’t seem to find Vaughn. But then he heard it. A huge crash that could only have been made by Vaughn. He looked over and saw the Communications Tower on its side and sparks flaring from the televisions attached to the sides of it.

            “VAUGHN!”

            Vaughn quickly went to Ben’s side. “Yes?” he said sheepishly.

            “We need to go. Now. Before anyone sees what you have done.”

            They quickly left the Bio Lair before anyone knew that it was Vaughn who had ruined 3 million dollars worth of technology. Ben assumed everyone would figure out who it was anyway on account of Vaughn was the only one capable of breaking one of the most important items that the Night Spektors owned.

            They exited the Man Cave and Nodded at Baker once again. Baker gave them The Nod back and pressed the red button again.

            Casually they left the Biology Room and strolled down the hallway. All of a sudden Ben ran into Luke. They both fell down on to the ground and all of the items in Luke’s arms were scattered on the floor.

            “Oh, sorry Luke.”

“No I’m sorry Ben.”

“It’s fine, I ran into you.” Ben said.

“Okay, okay.”

“Here I’ll help you pick this up.” Ben started to reach for the items Luke had dropped.

“NO! Don’t touch it!”

“Ben, are you okay? Did you break your arm?” Vaughn was very concerned.

“Vaughn stop touching me you’re not helping, and no my arm is fine.”

“Just let me pick you up by your armpits.”

“No, Vaughn, stop it! Stop touching my armpits!”

            By the time Ben was on his feet (all with the help of Vaughn) Luke was gone.

            “Vaughn! Where did Luke go?”

            “I don’t know but he sure had a lot of wires and cables and other shady things.”

            “Shady do you say?” Ben raised one eyebrow.

            “Very shady.”

            “Hmm… Luke always has been a pretty shady guy. Maybe we should keep an eye on that kid.”

            “I feel ya Ben.”

            “Well anyhow, you need to get back to “teaching” and I need to get back to class.”

            “Okay!” Vaughn saluted Ben, turned on his heel and marched back to his room. Now that he had gotten rid of Vaughn, at least for a few minutes, Ben was free to take a look around the school, uninterrupted, in order to find clues leading to The Sundling or to find that shady kid Luke.           

            Ben used his super smelling skills to try to sniff down Luke. He was nowhere to be found. Even when Ben looked under the cafeteria tables, through the jr. high lockers, over auditorium seats and into the girl’s locker room. (No one could be sure if Ben did the last one to find Luke or if he had ulterior motives.)

            Luke was hiding. Ben liked to refer to hiders and creeps as, shady mcshaderstons. He realized that finding The Sundling was going to be trickier than he thought, especially when he couldn’t even find Luke, who wasn’t that important.

            Ben was feeling heavy hearted as he turned the corner into the senior high wing when all of a sudden he ran into….

            To Be Continued.